Too cautious to vary more? A comparison of pitch variation in native and non-native productions of French and German speakers

Proceedings of the International Conference on Speech Prosody

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 1037-1041

  Zimmerer, Frank ^a   Jügler, Jeanin ^a   Andreeva, Bistra ^a   Möbius, Bernd ^a   Trouvain, Jürgen ^a  

^a SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

L1; L2; Language learning; Pitch variation

Indexed keywords

FOREIGN LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE LEARNING; LEARNER CORPORA; NATIVE LANGUAGE; NON-NATIVE; PITCH VARIATION;

EID: 84904687060     PISSN: 23332042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.21437/speechprosody.2014-196     Document Type: Conference Paper

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